[Mage] T15 set bonuses

Item - Mage T15 4P Bonus (New) Increases the effects of Arcane Charges by 20%, increases the critical strike chance of Pyroblast by 5%, and increases the chance for your Frostbolt to trigger Fingers of Frost by an additional 6%.

Honestly I find the boring. Not necessarily bad or lackluster, they're not. I mean, 2-set bonuses are typically lame so it's not an issue, but I really wanted the 4-set bonus to be something slightly more entertaining.

However, as far as Arcane goes, the 2-set bonus might be good incentive to use the Glyph of Arcane Power.

Honestly I find the boring. Not necessarily bad or lackluster, they're not. I mean, 2-set bonuses are typically lame so it's not an issue, but I really wanted the 4-set bonus to be something slightly more entertaining.

However, as far as Arcane goes, the 2-set bonus might be good incentive to use the Glyph of Arcane Power.

just talked to logoz about this itll be roughly 4.8% per charge...if its per charge......its the most op 4 set ever made expecially if it doesnt effect mana itll be like getting a free 7th stack

the other possability is is its 20% 1 time to 1 charge so only an extra ~4-5%

its kinda funny that the fire part isnt for fireball because the other 2 parts are for the builder/filler spells.....its always witht he 5% crit to pyro if it was for fireball fire would be viable agian lmao

Originally Posted by Ferg

sometimes when im alone i like to cover myself in vaseline and pretend im a slug

I actually dunno, Depends on what crit rating we can gather.. As if itemization is right, we might be able to get over 12k rating, and that inturn would mean our HS numbers will skyrocket. Mostly what this set bonuses do for fire is increase AT+PoM+Pyro macros effectiveness to heaven..

I actually dunno, Depends on what crit rating we can gather.. As if itemization is right, we might be able to get over 12k rating, and that inturn would mean our HS numbers will skyrocket. Mostly what this set bonuses do for fire is increase AT+PoM+Pyro macros effectiveness to heaven..

it takes it back to pre 5.1 5.1 stole 6-8% crit from us then the .05 to CM gave us back another 1-2% crit so it isnt a whole lot we get the 2 set seems way better for fire then the 4 set the 5% pyro crit is so over used

Originally Posted by Ferg

sometimes when im alone i like to cover myself in vaseline and pretend im a slug

The fire 4set makes me cringe it's so bad. The frost one is pretty nice but the clear winner is the arcane 2 and 4 set.
The 2 set seems to favor a haste invo build but the 4 set seems to favor a mastery rop build.
If it is just a damage increase then 6 stack camping will be amazing with it. The 2 set would boost mana regen by a ton making camping your 6 stack much easier for those 30 seconds.

Curious to see how this plays out. Also, this is way better than the rogue 2 and 4 set for mut.

Originally Posted by Lohe

If you're semi-hardcore or semi-casual what's the other half? To me, they're both the same thing.

why is the set bonus soooooo boring..........2set bonus shouldve already built in....... and 4piece for arcane is amazing, frost is ok....fire is uhhhhh wth are they thinking lol its definitly going to be changed or its the worst set bonus in history lol(maybe beats most of vanilla and tbc ones)

Well I would rather have the 5% pyro crit than the current 20% reduced combustion, assuming I ever play Fire for these two patches. Arcane seems decent enough, so guess that is what I will be sticking with.

I sincerely hope they change the t15 4 piece to boost max FoF charges to 3, because that change (coupled with the passive increase in the patch) is almost pointless. Remember, Frozen Orb uses "frostbolts". Past a certain % chance, it's almost pointless to increase it further with regard to it's effect on Frozen Orb.

This puts your chance with frostbolt at 21% with the current 3% increase included. Unlike a previous tier which was amazing (back when Brain Freeze didn't come off an at the time non-existent mage bomb), this will actually make our rotation even more clunky. You'll be firing off frostbolts just to keep the debuff up.

I just made a post, but I sincerely hope that the change to FoF proc chance doesn't mean we aren't getting Water Jet.